Brother Donggong

Yin Qiluo took me to find a small tavern, with a small wooden door side by side, not as short as the waist, and when you push it open, there are several wooden tables, and four small horses are surrounded by each small table.Yin Qiluo went in, and I led the horse and stood outside the fence.Over there is the stove, under the guise of wine, and a little further over there, there is a pair of couplets, the first couplet is "whether you love to come", the second couplet is "whether you like to eat", and the horizontal comment is "it's easy to leave but not to send away". .

There is only one open-air pot table here, and a woman wearing an apron is busy with her bare arms. She wears a twisted silver bracelet on her wrist, and the skin on her hands is soaked in water.

Seeing us coming, she straightened her stomach, took off the apron on her waist and threw it away, walked over with a large rag, wiped the table next to us symbolically, and asked in a rough voice, "What do you want? "

I said, "A jar of flower carvings, steamed stuffed meatballs, fried bamboo shoots, Shanshui tofu, half a scallion chicken, winged cabbage soup and rice."

The aunt glared at me after wiping the table, "We don't have the things you want here. If you want to eat them, go to a big restaurant. Don't come here to make trouble."

I,"……"

"Also." My aunt pointed to my horse and said, "Don't keep reining it, it won't be hungry if you are hungry, let go of the rein and let it eat grass and drink water over there. Oh, little girl, you are here again ~~~~”

The aunt's voice immediately became sweet and greasy, as if the sour pear water had been put on for three days on a hot day, and the sweetness turned sour.

Miss Yin is like a regular customer, she doesn't care about the sweet laughter of the aunt, she ordered quickly: "Two pots of honey wine, a plate of braised beef."

I let go of my Chinese cabbage (that precious horse), and it happily ran to the grass over there, flicked its tail, and happily went to the sink over there to drink cold water with its buttocks pouted.

I sat across from Yin Qiluo with a smile, "Only the beef feels a bit thin, let the proprietress stew a chicken, stir-fry some vegetables, and serve some rice."

"No no."

The aunt is carrying two clay pots in one hand, with a hemp rope hanging on them, and two wine bowls hanging on them.On her other arm was the plate of beef, which was sliced ​​to perfection, big and fat, and steaming hot.There are also three thick seasoning bowls on the aunt's meat palm, which contain chili, egg garlic, red fruit vinegar, and shallots, finely chopped coriander, and the bowls are piled up.

boom!

The aunt put the thing in her hand on the wooden table, stared at me and said, "I only have beef and homemade honey wine mixed with water here, I don't want to eat it."

I muttered, "This aunt is really interesting, she dares to sell honey wine mixed with water, and she is not afraid of being smashed."

Yin Qiluo untied the wine bowl from the jug and poured the wine, "Eleven Niang's honey wine is thick and mellow. If you don't mix it with water, I'm afraid the prince will get drunk when he smells it. Come, try it and see if this kind of rural snack is as good as the prince's." taste."

She poured wine for me, pushed the wine bowl, and poured it for herself again, I took another wine jug, and brought her wine bowl over, "Miss Yin, pour yourself and drink, more or less lonely, Since I drink with the girl, naturally I will give the girl the drink."

She suddenly smiled when she heard this, and put down the flagon in her hand.

I poured the wine and handed it to her, she finally went and thanked her, "My lord, I'll do it first as a respect."

I drank it up too, and then filled the wine bowls for both of us.

At this time, the sky became thinly dark, and several murmurs of evening drums came faintly through Yongjing.

I ate beef, but Yin Qiluo asked the proprietress to take a small basket of fresh plums, and she also took it and ate it slowly.

"My lord..."

"Huh?" I picked up a chopstick of beef, dipped it in the seasoning and stuffed it into my mouth and looked at her.

"Actually, the prince is very attractive to women, but why do you like masculinity?"

This question is too much.

I fluttered, the beef got stuck in my throat, and I was out of breath.

Cough, cough, cough...

I coughed again and again, and hurriedly picked up the water ladle next to me to drink water.

Yin Qiluo wiped off the beef and soup I spit on my robe with her handkerchief, and asked me regretfully, "My lord, are you alright?"

I covered my nose and endured it, and finally stopped coughing. I stared at her and asked, "How can you ask such a question? This is not something a girl in a boudoir should ask."

She suddenly smiled when she heard that, "I just said you are a likable person."

I,"……"

Yin Qiluo said, "You guys are so nice, you can do whatever you want. But I can't, sooner or later I'm someone else, and I even have to use my husband's surname in front of my surname."

I,"……"

She, "I'm going to get married."

"Ah?" I quickly laughed and said, "Congratulations. This is a good thing."

Yin Qiluo chuckled, "It's not a good thing, what parents have given, I will follow someone in this life, I can't escape."

What she said was a bit miserable, but she smiled, and there was no trace of lethargy at all, as if she was joking.

Since she laughed, I laughed too.

Me, "I have seen a string of jade hanging incense beads on the girl's wrist, but it is not the style worn by girls. It must be the girl's betrothal gift."

Her hand touched her wrist subconsciously, took off the string of beads, and handed it to me. I took it and looked at it. It was carved from high-quality Hetian jade. There was a tassel hanging in the middle of the string of beads. There is a small jade tablet on it, with two characters engraved on the front and back, one is 'Zhao' and the other is 'Yu'.

Zhao Yu?

this name...

I returned the beads to her, "I'm ignorant, I don't know which family's grandson this is?"

Yin Qiluo shook his head, "That person's father and my father were close friends, but they were not blessed, and they died as soon as they landed."

I said, "Ah? Then girl, who are you going to marry when you get married? Your father, Governor Yin, won't be so pedantic that he wants you to hold a tablet or something."

Yin Qiluo, "No, I married a living person, but I have no real power."

I was like, "Oh, congratulations girl.

"My lord, your congratulations, why does it sound so strange to me?"

I quickly said, "Hey, actually, it doesn't matter if it's powerful or not. A rich family has the luxury of a rich family, but also has the sea-like grievances of a noble family. What matters is how the person you marry is like. If you don't What power is cumbersome, you can still live a clean life, the greatest advantage of a person in this life is to live at home, and to be able to live a stable life is ability."

Although what I said is pretty silly, but it is also true of my heart.She is a girl, and no one expects her to make contributions in the battlefield and become a heroine like a dominatrix.

She lowered her head and thought for a while, picked up the wine bowl and pursed her lips with a smile, "Thank you, my lord, for your kind words."

Afterwards, she and I kept drinking. This honey wine is sweet, even if we drink too much.When the proprietress came out to settle the accounts, she brought out two big names, and there was a hangover soup made from wild berries, which was sour and sweet. I was dizzy and my mouth was dry after drinking this. The whole body is light and floating, almost like a fairy.

After sending Yin Qiluo home, I entered the palace.

My father's physical condition is still repeated. He fell asleep after taking the medicine from the imperial doctor. My mother came out of the bedroom and went back to her own Shouchun Palace to wash and change clothes. She asked me to follow.

"Chengzi, mother asked them to make hot noodle soup today, come over and have some."

I sat on a chair and ate melon seeds, shaking my head, "I've eaten outside, mother, you can drink the noodle soup by yourself."

"Where did you go just now? Why can't you find the poison?"

"I went to the Imperial Prison, took a look at Old Cui, and brought him some food and wound medicine."

As soon as my mother heard this, she came over with her rice bowl and sat across from me, "How is he? I heard that he... is he crazy?"

I nodded slowly and didn't speak.

Does anyone know if the partition has ears?

My mother took a deep breath and put down her job, "Chengzi, I actually wanted to say this early in the morning, why our family is short of people."

Me, "What do you mean?"

"For so many years, Mother has seen and listened a lot, but she doesn't talk much. But she doesn't talk much, which doesn't mean that Mother doesn't know anything. Prince, the third Highness is married, and their wives all have a right to A father who is rich and even has soldiers and horses. My mother always thought that marrying a wife like this is actually marrying his father-in-law, which seemed unreliable, but after thinking about it again, my mother thought it over and over again, and it is actually quite reliable. You say , if Bizi had a father-in-law like Mr. Du Ge, he would not be beaten, and he would not be crazy. Besides, if you had such a father-in-law, maybe Bizi would not end up like this gone."

After finishing speaking, she sighed again, "This year is really a disaster year. First your grandfather, then your uncle, and now even Bizi is like this. Is our Cui family going to be ruined? Now the emperor is like this again, no People will decide for us again..."

I put the melon seeds one by one in the teacup, "Mom, just speak up if you have something to say, when did you learn to beat around the bush?"

"Okay, then I'll tell you straight." My mother looked at me eagerly, "The emperor told you about his relatives before he got sick. It's not a girl from a small family, but the daughter of Xuanda governor Yin Mingyang."

I,"……"

No, if this is true, then this world is too lonely as snow.

I laughed in embarrassment, "Mother, I don't have a good reputation outside, and Yin is famous as a prince, would you give me the jewel in their family's palm?"

My mother said, "Well, I don't want to."

I,"……"

My mother said again, "It is said that Yin Mingyang is a stubborn old man. The girl in his family used to be married to someone else, but the family is long gone. The old man wants his daughter to be a widow, and others go to his house to talk about marriage." , was beaten out by him, so the girl dragged on until she was almost [-] years old and hadn't married yet. When I heard it, that's okay, that girl is still young, and a good youth can't just be wasted like this, so I begged The emperor issued a decree to bestow marriage."

Me, "Ah? You use the imperial decree to force other girls to marry me? Mother, mother, let me say something."

My mother, "No, my mother is a kind person, she can't do such a thing. This time, Miss Yin promised her marriage."

I smirked, "I promised,...hehe, with my father's imperial decree, who would dare not agree?"

I started eating melon seeds again.

"Chengzi, don't worry about anything else, this matter is up to you. If you want to, then get married. If you don't want to, hey, even if the imperial decree is issued, mother will protect you and won't make things difficult for you."

Click, with a soft sound, I cracked the melon seeds, and the two halves of the melon seeds fell on the wooden table.

Crack, another one...

Click, the third...

"But, Chengzi, think about Bizi, and think about our Cui family, do you really want to live your whole life like this?"

"Mother." I raised my eyes and looked at her seriously, "How much do you know about the matter between me and the prince?"

"..."

"Mother knows."

"Then why never tell me?"

When she was about to speak, I raised my hand and shook it, "Mom, I agree to this marriage."